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Athlete Rankings

8 boards built over the same corpus of documented results: counted career tallies, two composite scores, and one head to head.

8 Boards
108,782 Ranked on this board
12 Divisions
1934-2026 Seasons on record
Methodology visible

How these rankings are calculated

Rankings are built from documented contest results across pro and amateur bodybuilding, grouped by athlete and normalized by division.

Olympia title counts are deduped by year, and 212-era titles are treated as their own division rather than folded into Open bodybuilding.

A division filter includes any athlete with a documented result in that division, and each athlete's Olympia-title count is scoped to titles won in that same division only.

  • Primary source priority is NPC News Online for 2011+ IFBB Pro results, then IFBB Pro League, Arnold Sports, MuscleMemory, and Wikipedia for historical gaps.
  • Win rate requires a competition-history threshold so one-off winners do not outrank long-career athletes by accident.
  • Use the chips below to confirm the active metric, division filter, and current shareable view.
Methodology-based Figures are query-derived; the ranking order follows a fixed, published weighting of Olympia wins, then major and pro wins, then totals. Updated August 19, 2026

Ranking boards 8 boards, all divisions

Composite score

GOAT List

One published weighting of Olympia wins, major and pro wins, era strength, longevity and reach, scored per athlete.

Open GOAT List →

Composite score

Era-Adjusted GOAT

The same composite, rescaled against how deep the field actually was in the years an athlete competed.

Open Era-Adjusted GOAT →

Head to head

Prime vs Prime

Sets two athletes against each other at their best documented seasons instead of across their whole careers.

Open Prime vs Prime →

Most Shows All Divisions

Most Shows All Divisions 50 of 108,782 athletes
Rank Athlete Division Country Most Shows
701 Women's Figure United States 28
702 Women's Figure United States 28
703 Women's Figure United States 28
704 Men's 212 Bodybuilding Venezuela 28
705 Women's Figure United States 28
706 Women's Physique United States 28
707 Women's Bodybuilding United States 28
708 Women's Figure United States 28
709 Women's Physique United States 28
710 Women's Figure United States 28
711 Men's Classic Physique United States 28
712 Men's Open Bodybuilding United States 28
713 Women's Figure United States 28
714 Women's Figure United States 28
715 Women's Bodybuilding United States 28
716 Women's Figure United States 28
717 Women's Figure United States 28
718 Men's Open Bodybuilding United States 28
719 Men's Open Bodybuilding United States 28
720 Women's Figure United States 28
721 Women's Figure United States 28
722 Women's Physique Trinidad and Tobago 28
723 Men's Open Bodybuilding United States 28
724 Men's Open Bodybuilding United States 28
725 Men's Open Bodybuilding United States 28
726 Men's Open Bodybuilding United States 28
727 Women's Bodybuilding Serbia 28
728 Men's Open Bodybuilding United States 28
729 Women's Bodybuilding United States 28
730 Men's Open Bodybuilding United States 28
731 Women's Figure United States 28
732 Women's Bodybuilding United States 28
733 Men's Physique United States 28
734 Women's Figure United States 28
735 Men's Classic Physique United States 28
736 Men's Open Bodybuilding United States 28
737 Women's Figure United States 28
738 Women's Bikini Thailand 28
739 Men's Classic Physique Canada 28
740 Women's Bodybuilding United States 28
741 Men's Open Bodybuilding France 28
742 Men's Open Bodybuilding Canada 28
743 Men's Open Bodybuilding United States 28
744 Women's Bodybuilding United States 28
745 Men's Open Bodybuilding Cuba 28
746 Men's Open Bodybuilding Egypt 28
747 Men's Open Bodybuilding United Kingdom 28
748 Men's Open Bodybuilding United States 28
749 Men's Open Bodybuilding United States 28
750 Men's Open Bodybuilding United Kingdom 28

Top 50 of 108,782 athletes

Dataset citation

Cite the Bodybuilding Database

Dataset version .

Suggested citation: Fitness Volt Bodybuilding Database, v2026-08-18

About the Database API documentation

  • Athletes: 376,080 source records, 109,537 linked athletes, 42 named sources.
  • Contests: 10,320 source records, 6,719 linked contests, 22 named sources.
  • Results: 516,222 source records, 335,913 linked results, 11 named sources.